Subject: Re: Re-sending a message in Pine

From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 25 Jan 1997 17:57:08 GMT

[email-masked] (Mats Petersson):
> Anyone who knows if it is possible to re-send a previously written message
> in Pine? I have looked everywhere for a command to do this, but to no avail.
> I think it's strange if there is no such possibility...

Well, it isn't there because a sent mail usually isn't sent several times. ;-)
I am sure that you are able to save the mail to a file and resend it by
reading it into a mail.  A bounce command can be helpful, too.

Sven

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From: Barry Landy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 10:51:30 +0000

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Mats Petersson wrote:

:>Anyone who knows if it is possible to re-send a previously written
:>message in Pine? I have looked everywhere for a command to do this, but to
:>no avail. I think it's strange if there is no such possibility...

An even better way to do this is as follows:

a) move to the sent-mail folder (or whereever the previously written
message is now stored). 

b) Save the message to the postponed folder (default name is
postponed-msgs on unix and POSTPOND for PC-pine)

c) obey the command Compose, and the message will reappear as if it had
just been postponed.

In the above it is immaterial whether the target message was incoming
or outgoing.

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